4.3: Project Planning Tools
Watch this video. Although it is called "Project Initiation", it is about project planning.
The critical path is a crucial concept in project management. This video shows how to use activity networks to calculate the earliest and latest completion times for various project activities and how to determine which activities lie on the critical path.
Watch this video, which presents various technology tools that aid in effective project management. As you watch, think about a problem a virtual team might face and propose a technological solution to that issue.
Read these sections and attempt the exercises at the end. This chapter discusses the scheduling aspect of project management and introduces technology and tools that help project managers stay on track. While this text uses information technology projects as examples, the principles are the same for managing any type of complex project.